Students said they saw the substitute teacher viewing pornographic photos on a school computer last week, reported Kare 11. According to the Star Tribune, the students were 14 and 15 years old.
Police later searched the teacher's house for more sexually explicit material, reported Kare 11. He was fired on Friday.
"The teacher in question had a clear background," said Tim McGowan, principal at Community at Peace Academy for grades 7-12, to the Star Tribune. McGowan could not comment on any other details.
The teacher was booked into Ramsey County Jail Wednesday, reported Kare 11, but has yet to be charged.
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The presentation ceremony will be Thursday at the official residence of Los Pinos, or The Pines, in Mexico City, reported La Jornada.
According to Zócalo Saltillo, Chávez has a 16-year trajectory of promoting the effective defense of human rights through the foundation Asociación Civil Casa Amiga Centro de Crisis.
La Jornada reported that Chávez took care, in an altruistic way, of many victims of sexual and domestic abuse, as well as their families. She also promoted respect between genders and brought forth the knowledge of the rights of women in Jalisco, Chihuahua and Mexico City.
]]>Julie Westermann, a Bank of America spokeswoman, told the Sun Times that the company had loaned $1.35 million. JPMorgan Chase & Co. added $400,000.
CNN reported that workers had approved the deal at a meeting Wednesday night. The average worker will receive about $6,000 under the package.
According to the Sun Times, each former Republic employee will get eight weeks salary, all accrued vacation pay and two months paid health care, which then equals closer to about $7,000 for each.
"This is about more than just money," Union official Carl Rosen said to CNN. "It's about what can be achieved when workers organize and stand up for justice."
]]>For the past several years, the Star Tribune reported, surveys had noted that young drivers were not hearing snow emergency information through such traditional channels of print or broadcast media.
The city is asking videographers as well to create and submit to help people follow snow parking rules and avoid getting ticketed or plowed, reported the Star Tribune.
The social networking pages will maintain a snow emergency status and facts about snow emergency parking and plowing, reported Fox 9.
According to the New York Times, the seven-year-old approached the six-year-old boy in the restroom and took his dollar, authorities said. The six-year-old got a nosebleed during the robbery, but no other injuries were suffered.
The victim's mother reported the incident Monday, after the Thanksgiving break, and school administrators informed the police, reported the Miami Herald. Pembroke Pines then sent a letter home addressing the issue, while also encouraging parents to speak with their children about the current events and making sure their child is not doing anything that could cause harm to others.
The case will not be easy, however, reported the New York Times.
“There’s some difficulty in this case because you first have to determine if the child knew what he was doing,� a police spokesman, David Golt, said to the New York Times.
Unless the prosecution can prove that the first grader is "legally competent," then he cannot be prosecuted, reported the Miami Herald.
According to the New York Times, if he is expelled from Pembroke Pines, the seven-year-old will be sent to an alternative school, an education facility that specializes in the education of children who have behavioral problems.
U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza released $197 million at a ceremony in Mexico City, and the rest of the money will be disbursed during the year, reported Fox News.
The money could not come at a more critical hour, reported Fox News. The death toll in Mexico due to drug-related violence is over 4,000, while murders and kidnappings are becoming more frequent over the border as well.
According to the BBC, last weekend alone, there were 25 deaths in Tijuana, including nine bodies that were decapitated, which Mexican officials claiming that a lot of the violence is due to the gangs turning on each other.
The Merida Initiative will allow the U.S. and Mexico to work more closely, reported Fox News.
However, according to the BBC, none of the $197 million released will be in the form of cash. U.S. legislators worried that the money would end up in the hands of corrupt officials.
President Felipe Calderon has long sought, and been promised, aid from the U.S. in fighting the drug war, reported the BBC.
"It's time to work together to find the best practices that work across the hemisphere, and to tailor approaches to fit each country," Obama said, reported Fox News.
]]>According to the Star Tribune, the criminal complaint stated that Clark kicked down the door of the child's mother's apartment and threatened the mother and a friend with a gun. Clark grabbed the child and ran, but the mother and friend were able to take her away from Clark.
Clark pepper-sprayed the mother's friend and hit the baby with the pepper spray, according to the Pioneer Press. The child was not severely hurt, though, reported the Star Tribune.
Clark will be sentenced Jan. 21, according to both sources.
According to CNN, the state attorney general's office has already appealed the decision.
Florida is the only state that prohibits gays from adopting, reported U.S. News and World Report. Other states have de facto laws and conservative courts rarely rule to allow gay adoption, however.
Organizations like the National Adoption Center, the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have said that allowing gays to adopt children does not negatively affect the children, reported CNN.
Gay adoption supporters are hopeful that the ban will be overturned finally after 31 years, reported U.S. News and World Report.
]]>Jamaica has had a ban on the death penalty since 1988, reported the BBC. However, the governing Jamaica Labour Party has been pushing for its return since last year.
Thirty-four members of the Parliament said yes, while 15 said no. Ten votes were absentee, reported the Miami Herald.
Jamaica currently has nine men on death row, reported the BBC. There have been 1,200 murders on the island so far this year.
Some fear sanctions from the EU, reported the BBC, but if due process of law is carried out, they assure they have nothing to worry about.
Video captured the man in a parking ramp at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College on Hennepin Avenue, reported Kare 11.
The man, reported WCCO, is a black man, 5-foot-8 with a medium-dark complexion.
According to WCCO, the man has commited crimes in three other parking ramps--one in Laurel Village, one on 3rd and 2nd Avenue, and one on 1st and 2nd Avenue.
The suspect, police told Kare 11, has pistol whipped at least two victims.
"There are people like him out there that just not satisfied with taking property from people," said Lt. Mike Fossum with the Minneapolis Police Department to Kare 11. "Half the thrill for them, since they're cowards anyway, is to inflict punishment on the victims, humiliation, so we'd like to inflict a little bit ourselves by locking him up in prison."
It's a high priority to get this man off the street, reported WCCO, especially because he has used a gun to harm his victims by hitting them. If he has a gun, police do not doubt he would eventually fire it if he needed to.
Kare 11 described him as being between the age 25 to 30, had a goatee, and was wearing a dark stocking cap, thigh-length pullover and jeans and bulky gloves.
Three other Mexican officials at least, the BBC reported, have been arrested this week in connection with “Operation Clean-Up.�
Almost 4,000 people have died in 2008 due to the war on drugs and drug-related violence, reported the BBC.
According to La Jornada, an official notice from the general office of the judge made it public that in the initial investigations for “Operación Limpieza,� attention arose and led to previous inquiry.
Operation Clean-up, reported the BBC, is aimed at weeding out officials with alleged links to members of powerful drug cartels.
Gutiérrez’s investigation was obtained by following the arrest of a suspected drug baron in January, reported the BBC.
]]>According to the Anchorage Daily News, those final ballots will be counted Nov. 25.
Alaska elections Director Gail Fenumiai said officials hope to make a legitimate announcement during the week of Dec. 1, reported CNN. Stevens would then have five days to demand a recount.
However, reported the Anchorage Daily News, since the state has moved to mostly machine counting, recent Alaska recounts have resulted in little change in the final tally.
Begich would be the first Democrat to represent Alaska in the U.S. Senate in nearly 30 years, reported the Anchorage Daily News, and his victory would put the Democrats one step closer to a filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate.
"It's been an incredible journey getting to this point, and I appreciate the support and commitment of the thousands of Alaskans who have brought us to this day," he said in the written statement, reported CNN. "I can't wait to get to work fighting for Alaskan families."
]]>The boy was not seriously hurt, reported the Star Tribune, but the girl could face expulsion from Highland Park Junior High School.
According to the Star Tribune, the case is being handled in juvenile court, and her name cannot be released because of her age. She remains in the Ramsey County Juvenile Detention Center.
The girl was immediately arrested and suspended from school, reported the Pioneer Press. A mandatory referral to the district for expulsion will be made.
]]>The New York Times reported that President George Bush had nominated Dunwoody on Monday to head the Army Material Command. This command is responsible for equipping, outfitting and arming the soldiers of the Army.
“There is no one more surprised than I,� Dunwoody said at her promotion on Friday, reported CNN.
She had planned on a two-year enlistment after leaving college, CNN reported. Now, she will have 133,000 personnel under her command.
Women have not reached four-star rank because they are excluded by law from serving in combat roles, which usually have been the only way to receive such promotions, reported the New York Times. That exclusion continues to apply, but with Dunwoody the Army has chosen to cast aside its traditional limitations on promotion.
According to the New York Times, Dunwoody was only one of two women to have three stars in the U.S. Army.
President Bush nominated Dunwoody for her fourth star in June, reported CNN. The nomination then went to the Senate, who confirmed her promotion.
]]>According to ABC News, the diamonds could be used to detect radiation, coat cutting tools or act as a substitute for silicon in the computer chips of the future, said Miguel Apatiga, one of three researchers who made the discovery.
According to BBC, who also spoke with Apatiga, the tequila was converted into a vapour by being put under a great amount of heat. The gas molecules break up into small particles, after which they increase the temperature even more to 800 degrees Celsius.
The end result, the BBC reported, are carbon atoms that are deposited in the shape of a thin diamond film.
They began experimenting 13 years ago, ABC News reported, with synthetic diamonds made by a technological process. Then they moved on to producing diamonds from liquids.
The BBC reported that one advantage of making diamond film from tequila is that it is extremely cheap. Even the cheapest of tequila brands averaging $3 a bottle are good enough to make diamonds.
While these diamonds are too small to make jewelry, the scientists are investigating other applications for tequila diamonds, both sources reported.